Government & Policy

The Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience emphasizes the need for digital transformation, even amid economic uncertainty. Jan-Willem Scheijgrond, global head of government and public affairs at Philips, unpacks the new report.

William McDermott briefed the 2022 HIMSS Cybersecurity Forum in Boston on new threats, cleared up some misconceptions about incident response and walked through what happens when healthcare organizations reach out for help.

"The adversary has to beat all of us to beat one of us," said Greg Garcia of the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.

At the 2022 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston, keynote speaker Anita Allen described the delicate and complex balance between the imperative of data sharing and the need to protect privacy.

The agency issued a bulletin clarifying that a notice of pixel use does not permit PHI disclosure, and when HIPAA-compliant authorizations for pixels are required.

There are still a lot of misconceptions about the ONC rule and its requirements, says Joerg Schwarz, senior director for healthcare interoperability strategy at Infor, who offers some tips for provider organizations.

A series of themes and proposals to help advance the digital transformation of healthcare in the Middle East and North Africa were made during the final session of the 2022 HIMSS Middle East Health Conference & Exhibition.

The FCC established the Affordable Connectivity Program in December 2021 to provide access and subsidized computing devices. It's free to enroll in ACP, but too few people are taking advantage.

The agency's first coordinated action against individuals using business email compromise and money laundering schemes to target healthcare payers uncovered $11.1 million diverted from Medicare, Medicaid programs, private health insurers and others.